This presentation will include discussion on various issues related to wearable computing, Linux, and specifics on Brad's projects. Topics are:

Human Computer Interface (HCI) design for wearable software

General challenges and goals

How Wearbook addressed these challenges

Reasoning behind Wearbook design

StrongARM Based Wearable Computing

Linux on StrongARM

Developing wearable computing applications for StrongARM Linux

Cross-compilers, X Windows, Microwindows, and FLTK

Bio

Brad is a senior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, completing his Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering; he's also a former President of WPI's ACM Student Chapter. Brad has been designing a Wearable Virtual Course Notebook (Wearbook) application to be used by the student in the classroom. Key features are ability to capture low frame rate video and audio streams, snapshot pictures, search capabilities, context awareness, and indexing of media streams against textual notes. In addition Brad has been designing a StrongARM SA-1110 board for wearable computing use.